Topic: Mike Tyson Hits Bitcoin Bandwagon with 5M Twitter Followers (Read 1142 times)

Exactly.
If he has 1M followers, apparently that 300k of them never heard about bitcoin, and now its their first time.
Even if 10k of them will buy some, it will be very good to our community.

Fuck that was good made me laugh!


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but yeah, exposure to 5m is always good

Exposure. This is certainly good.

TysonCoin looks better.

Anyway, im still waiting to see if all the scamming acusation things get clarified before I get too excited. The free exposure to 5M is there anyway tho.

It's great exposure for us, it really is. With 5 million followers he can make people aware of bitcoin that weren't before. I think it's a pretty significant bit of news & the negative people can go to hell. Any other ideas how 5 million new people could become aware of bitcoin? No! We have to embrace every positive mention of bitcoin in the mainstream media, Lord knows we need it.

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CNBC now piking up this story:

Mike Tyson apparently entering the bitcoin market
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/27/mike-tyson-apparently-entering-the-bitcoin-market.html

I'm not sure Mike Tysons business/real estate ventures have been all that sucessful in the past.

I wish him luck with this, and hopefully his influence can get more people to become interested and use btc.  I'm just not sure why people would trust a former boxer enough to create a secure, easy to use and reliable bitcoin atm, and actually use it.

So the idea basically is that people will follow their idol into using bitcoin and that they would use a mike Tyson atm over another brand atm?

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/27/mike-tyson-apparently-entering-the-bitcoin-market.html

A representative for Tyson did not immediately return request for comment, although the message from his official account appeared to suggest his authorization of the business.

Still, tech news site SiliconAngle reported that Tyson himself may have been "suckered into a deal by a fast talker who has promised him millions if he gets involved and lends his name to the enterprise." It cited MikeTysonBitcoin.com's registration to a Peter Klamka, who is connected to Bitcoin Brands—a firm with a paltry $6,780 market cap according to Google Finance.
Former boxer Mike Tyson
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Former boxer Mike Tyson

Speaking to CNBC over the phone, Klamka disputed that account, saying that Bitcoin Brands has nothing to do with his Tyson venture, which operates under the moniker Bitcoin Direct LLC.

This new firm (which Klamka says is a subsidiary of cattle company Conexus Cattle "for financing") seeks to create a whole suite of celebrity bitcoin-related products. He told CNBC that he came to the idea after previously working with celebrity credit cards tied to Kiss, Donald Trump and Hello Kitty.

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The Tyson-branded bitcoin ATMs, which are slated to launch in two Las Vegas locations in about three weeks, will feature "Mike branding on the software" and will "hopefully have the ability to build a database of Mike's fans that are bitcoin users," Klamka said.

The venture is a 50-50 split between Tyson and Bitcoin Direct, he added.

the only true way for him it's to accept an UFC fight....  he would be ridiculous but would earn some millions for sure

I hope he'th for real. Iron Mike ith a fucking legend

This is quite big. In one jab Mike Tyson has knocked bitcoin to more people than anything before! If even 1% gets interested in bitcoin, the bitcoin users would increase by the same number, if not more

Look at his face as he passionately kisses the pigeon, does that look like the face of someone who would hurt a fly?

The Tyson Pump is real 

if each of his follower bought 1 bitcoin..we would see $1000 soon.

fingers crossed.

It could be. More than a few stars have lost fortunes because they naively agreed to partner up with scammy or flaky companies.

But that said, it's great news for Bitcoin!

i don't think a fucking macho rapist is ideal for bitcoin, despite his 5m followers a piece of shit is still a piece of shit

lol haha i don't no

Apparently it's a scam company.